This is the fright of a lifetime! Two Texas fishermen experienced the fright of a lifetime Saturday afternoon when a bolt of lightning struck immediately in front of their boat on Lake Athens, Texas.

Texas angler Tucker K. Owings and an unnamed companion experienced the fright of a lifetime Saturday afternoon, October 12 2013, when a bolt of lightning struck immediately in front of their boat on Lake Athens. The event was captured on a GoPro camera and the accompanying footage shows just how close the lightning was to the front of the boat. Owings, 16, is a professional bass fisherman. He told KPHO that in the moments before the lightning struck, “We were literally feeling what I would describe as static on our rods. At that point we quickly started to head to the ramp.” That was when the bolt shot through the gloomy sky. “I am one of the youngest professionals in the fishing industry and just learned a very important lesson,” Owings added. “I am thankful God protected us.”

Strange Sounds is your news website featuring amazing, weird and unexplained phenomena occurring around the world. Enter this community to discover and share news, videos, stories and articles on weird noises from the sky and other amazing, strange and unexplained natural events happening around the world. We are there to expose the truth about mystery booms, strange sky and extreme weather events, meteor disintegrations and space anomalies, geological oddities (sinkhole, fracking quakes), magic places, odd animal discovery and behaviors around the globe.